SPPA 139 Normal Speech and Language Development

Fall 2008

Steven H. Long, Ph.D.

How to Reach Me

Office: Cramer Hall 230J

Lab: Cramer Hall 230T

Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Friday 2:00-3:00

Phone: 414-288-5190

Email: steven.long@marquette.edu

Readings

† purchase at Book Marq

‡ order online (http://www.bookdepository.co.uk)

· on electronic reserve at Raynor Library (https://marquette.ares.atlas-sys.com/ares/)

J on physical reserve at Raynor Library

*	Berman, R.A. (1986). A cross-linguistic perspective: Morphology and syntax. In P. Fletcher & M. Garman (Eds.), Language Acquisition. Second Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pages 429-447.
J	Bickerton, D. (1983). Creole languages. Scientific American, 249, 116-122.
‡	Crystal D. (2004). Rediscover Grammar. London: Pearson Longman.
†	Owens, R.E. (2008). Language Development: An Introduction. 7th Edition. Boston: Pearson Education.
*	Pinker, S. (1991). Rules of language. Science, 250, 530-535.

Terminology to review for Exams

The link for a review document may not work (i.e., you’ll see “The page cannot be found”) until a week before before that exam.

First Exam

Second Exam

Final Exam

Course Outline

Topics to be covered in each class are listed in the table below, along with the texts that should be read. Homework due dates are in boldface. Examination dates are also shown. The PDF links will let you download all the Powerpoint slides shown in class for a given unit. The PDF link for a given unit may not work (i.e., you’ll see “The page cannot be found”) until a few days before we begin that unit in class.

Dates	Lecture Topics	Readings	PDF	Homework
8/25 M	Language domains	Owens: chapter 1	click here
8/27 W 8/29 F	First words	Owens: chapter 7	click here
9/1 M	no class (Labor Day)
9/3 W 9/5 F 9/8 M	First words (cont.)
9/10 W 9/12 F	Precursors of language in infancy	Owens: chapters 4, 5	click here	#2
9/15 M 9/17 W 9/19 F	Conversations of parents & children	Owens: pp. 168-184	click here	#3
9/22 M	First Examination
9/24 W 9/26 F 9/29 M 10/1 W 10/3 F	Grammatical structures of English	Crystal (entire book)	click here	#4
10/6 M 10/8 W 10/10 F 10/13 M 10/15 W	Grammatical development	Owens: pp. 151-167, 261-300, 337-347	click here	#5 #6 #7 #8
10/17 F	no class (Mid-semester holiday)
10/20 M 10/22 W 10/24 F	Later lexical development	Owens: pp. 248-254, 330-336	click here
10/27 M	Second Examination
10/29 W 10/31 F	Pragmatic development	Owens: pp. 44-46, 231-248, 317-330	click here	#10
11/3 M 11/5 W	Individual differences	Owens: pp. 380-381	click here
11/7 F 11/10 M 11/12 W	Later achievements: metaphor, humor, idiom, narrative, language awareness	Owens: pp. 335-337, 348-351	click here
11/14 F 11/17 M	Acquisition of other languages	Berman	click here
11/19 W 11/21 F 11/24 F	Biological, cognitive, and environmental factors in language development	Owens: ch. 3, pp. 30-53	click here
11/26 W 11/28 F	no class (Thanksgiving Break)
12/1 M 12/3 W	Linguistic theories of language acquisition	Pinker Bickerton	click here
12/5 F	catch-up
12/8 M	8:00-10:00 pm Final Examination